Blogging is a favorite way to stay in touch and to teach God’s word. Trust all readers are safe from Covid-19. It will be finished with us when God is finished with it.
A story in the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Earthwatch section relates to discipleship. It noted that the Covid-caused decline in human activity has given scientists a chance to “detect previously hidden earthquake signals” 1/4/21. That seemed an appropriate parable of the Master’s Parable of the Thorny Soil in Matthew 13:7, 22. God called Elijah as his prophetic spokesman to a depraved majority in Israel under King Ahab and his spiteful, Baal-worshipping, Jezebel. The titanic spiritual struggle concluded on 1800 foot Mount Carmel in northwest Israel, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. There God so blisteringly attacked Baal worship that a suddenly-impressed laity in attendance swooned in adoration, “The LORD—he is God! The LORD—he is God!” Elijah finished the contest by ordering the execution of Baal’s 400 prophets, who had all-day-long besieged their god with cries and self-imposed bodily punishment, seeking pity and an ANSWER. All unavailingly! I Kings 18:1-46. While the assembled throng responded to God’s unleashed “shock and awe” demonstration with physical prostration and verbal shouts, wicked Jezebel responded differently, if predictably. She sent a scathing letter of doom to the prophet. “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them” I Kings 19:2. Knowing the Queen’s colossal blood-for-blood vindictiveness, her husband’s inability to limit it and her unconditional authority to inflict it, Elijah flinched as he read his death sentence, then panicked. “Elijah was afraid and ran for his life” I Kings 19:3a. End Part I
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